ACC/AHA clinical performance measures for adults with ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to Develop Performance Measures on ST-Elevation and Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction)

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2006-01, Vol.47 (1), p.236-265
• Main Authors: Krumholz, Harlan M, Anderson, Jeffrey L, Brooks, Neil H, Fesmire, Francis M, Lambrew, Costas T, Landrum, Mary Beth, Weaver, W Douglas, Whyte, John, Bonow, Robert O, Bennett, Susan J, Burke, Gregory, Eagle, Kim A, Linderbaum, Jane, Masoudi, Frederick A, Normand, Sharon-Lise T, Piña, Ileana L, Radford, Martha J, Rumsfeld, John S, Ritchie, James L, Spertus, John A
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accountability; Cardiology; Cardiology - standards; Committees; Electrocardiography; Heart; Hospitals; Humans; Intervention; Intubation; Myocardial Infarction - diagnosis; Myocardial Infarction - therapy; Patients; Performance evaluation; Quality Indicators, Health Care - standards; Quality standards; Task forces; Writing
• ISSN: 0735-1097; 1558-3597
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.10.020

[...]significant judgment by clinicians is required to adapt these guidelines to the care of individual patients, and these guidelines can be generated with varying degrees of confidence based upon available evidence. While the focus of the performance measures writing committees is to develop measures for internal quality improvement, it is appreciated that other organizations may use these measures for external reporting of provider performance. [...]it is within the scope of the writing committee's task to comment on the strengths and limitations of externally reporting potential performance measures. Daichii Proctor & Gamble Dr. Frederick Kushner Content Reviewer-ACC/AHA STEMI Guideline Writing Committee Aginamoto Co. Andrx Labs Atherogenics, Inc. Boehringer-Ingelheim Medtronic Novartis Rorer Schering-Plough Bristol-Myers Squibb Merck Pfizer Reliant Abbott Labs Baxter Guidant Medtronic Merck Pfizer * Millennium, Inc. Dr. Joseph Ornato Content Reviewer-ACC/AHA STEMI Guideline Writing Committee Genentech Meridian Medical Corp. Wyeth None None Bristol-Myers-Squibb Genentech HP/Agilent Medtronic Meridian Medical Corp. Philips PhysioControl Scios Revivant Corp. Wyeth Dr. Eugene Braunwald Content Reviewer-Chair, ACC/AHA UA/NSTEMI Guideline Writing Committee None None None None Dr. Thomas Levin Content Reviewer-ACC/AHA UA/NSTEMI Guideline Writing Committee None None None None Dr. Earl Smith III Content Reviewer-ACC/AHA UA/NSTEMI Guideline Writing Committee None None None None Dr. Pierre Theroux Content Reviewer-ACC/AHA UA/NSTEMI Guideline Writing Committee None None Astra Zeneca Aventis Proctor & Gamble None Dr. Rohit Arora Content Reviewer-ACCF Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention Committee None Aventis None None Dr. Carlos Ruiz Content Reviewer-ACCF Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention Committee Cook Cardiology None None None Dr. Karl B. Kern Content Reviewer-ACCF EmergencyCardiac Care Committee None None None ERS Medtronic Revivant Corp. Dr. Mary Ann Peberdy Content Reviewer-ACCF EmergencyCardiac Care Committee None None None None Dr. Michael Rosenberg Content Reviewer-ACCF EmergencyCardiac Care Committee None None None None Dr. David Faxon Content Reviewer-AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Steering Committee None None None None Dr. William Weintraub Content Reviewer-AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Steering Committee None None None None Dr. Bojan Cercek Content Reviewer-AHA Committee on Acute Cardiac Care None None None None Dr. James De Lemos Cont